The Proletarian Unity League was formed in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
in 1975 by
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) members who had been associated with the
Revolutionary Youth Movement II
In the United States, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) is the section of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP). Most of the national leadership of SDS joined t ...
grouping that emerged from the split in SDS at its summer 1969 convention. The Proletarian Unity League (PUL) was critical of what it saw as
ultraleftism
The term ultra-leftism, when used among Marxist groups, is a pejorative for certain types of positions on the far-left that are extreme or uncompromising. Another definition historically refers to a particular current of Marxist communism, where ...
among American
anti-revisionist
Anti-revisionism is a position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the 1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Where Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor Joseph Stalin, ...
groups. In 1985 it merged with the
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH) was a U.S. Marxist-Leninist organization that formed out of a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in 1977. After Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party of China, died in 1976, the majori ...
and formed the
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a Marxist–Leninist organization in the United States. It formed in 1985 amid the collapse of the Maoist-oriented New Communist movement that emerged in the 1970s.
The FRSO's component groups g ...
(which
Organization for Revolutionary Unity
The Organization for Revolutionary Unity (ORU) was an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States. ORU was formed in 1983 from a merger of the Committee for a Proletarian Party (CPP) and the Communist Organization, Bay Ar ...
joined in 1986).
Publications by The Proletarian Unity League include:
* Mitchell, Roxanne and Frank Weiss
''Two, Three, Many Parties of a New Type? Against the Ultra-Left Line'' Publisher: United Labor Press (1977).
* Proletarian Unity League. ''On the October League's call for a new communist party. A response.'' United Labor Press. New York. 1976.
* ''Forward Motion'' magazine.
Anti-revisionist organizations
Defunct Maoist organizations in the United States
1975 establishments in Massachusetts
1985 disestablishments in the United States
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